Display Last Modified Date of Pages with Oxygen Builder

If you are wondering how to display your page's last modified/updated date along with or instead of the page published date in the Oxygen template, then in this post I will teach you how to do that using a code snippet within a few minutes.
Wasim Akram
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Last Updated: September 25, 2020
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If you are wondering how to display your page’s modified/updated date along with or instead of the page published date in the Oxygen Templating, then in this post I will teach you how to do that within a few minutes.

You only need to know how to copy and paste the provided code snippet to your WordPress site using the Code Snippets, Advanced Scripts, or any other similar plugin.

Also, I assume that you are already comfortable with Oxygen Dynamic Data options as we are going to use that extraordinary feature to display the last modified date of the page to the Oxygen template.

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Even if you don’t know how to use them properly still no worries, just follow the post carefully and I will teach you everything step by step.

Register a PHP Function To Display Last Modified Date in Oxygen Templates

The very first step is to install and activate the Code Snippets plugin, then add a new code snippet after that just copy the provided PHP code snippet you can find below and paste that to register a function to call the last modified date.

/* Display Last Modified Date in Oxygen Templates */

function syncwin_display_last_modified_date( ) {
return get_the_modified_time('F j, Y');
}

Special thanks to Matt Hias for helping me to improve the old bloated code snippet with a new optimized version.

Add The Page Modified Date Using Oxygen Dynamic Data Feature

The final step is to add a text element to your template and then select the texts and you will find an Insert Data button on top of the Oxygen editor.

Once you click that button you will see a pop-up window called Insert Dynamic Data, now just click over to the PHP Function Return Value button under the Advanced section.

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Once you click on that option you will see two fields, the first one is a Function Name and the second one is the Function Arguments field.

In the Function Name field, you need to insert “syncwin_display_last_modified_date” which is our function name that you also can see in the first line of the code snippet I provided, now leave the second Function Argument field blank as we don’t need that in this case.

Next just hit the Insert button on the same window and click the Save button from the top right corner of the Oxygen editor.

Now you can see the page Updated/Modified Date on the front-end of your Oxygen page once you reload the page.

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The Navigation Should Look Like This:

> Open the Oxygen Editor
> Click the +Add Button
> Add a text element
> Double click on that particular element to select the texts
> Hit the Insert data button from the top of the page
> Select the PHP Function Return Value button under the Advanced section
> Insert 
syncwin_display_last_modified_date in the Function Name field
> Leave the PHP Argument field blank
> Hit the Insert button

> Save the Oxygen Template using the Save button from the top right corner

Conclusion

In this knowledgebase post, I have covered how to display the page updated/modified date to your Oxygen templating using a simple PHP function and dynamic data feature of Oxygen.

I believe this guide was helpful to you so if I am right and you think the same as I do, then please share it with your community so that they also can take benefit from this post.

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Wasim Akram
Hello myself Wasim, I’m from the city of Mother Teresa Calcutta (currently Kolkata), which exists in India, a country of unity in diversity.I belong to the sales and marketing field with 10+ years of experience. In December of 2017, I switched my career from a 9 to 5 traditional job to the digital entrepreneurship.Currently, I am a Google and HubSpot certified Digital Marketer, a WordPress Specialist, Web Designer & Strategist and the founder of SyncWin.
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